Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1901 — Charles A. Roberts. [ARTICLE]

Charles A. Roberts.

IT is the purpose of this edition the Republican to portray, as beet it can, the leading mercantile industries of the city, which by their prominenoe most faithfully represent the possibilities of trade in their direction. In refering to the implement business of Chas. A. Roberts, we must yield to him the palm of supremacy in this latitude in the line he represent;. Ttia warehouse, office and salesroom is located on Front street, a Abort distance north from Liberal Corner, and in the season this emporium is stocked with a varied line of implements and vehicles. Mr. Roberts is the local agent for the McCormick mowerß, binders, corn buskers, shreders and harvesters, and it is a well known fact, that the McCormick machines have no superior on the market, He handles the Birdsell clover hnUer and is the looal agent for the Monarch gas engine, one of the most effective, and durable engines of its kind. Every imslement Mr. Roberts handles is high class and offered at the lowest Sgure. He keeps in touch with the manufactures and oan supply any tool and all extras for machines he handles on short notioe. He » the speoial agent in Rensselaer for the Stndebaker vehicles and carries a line of farm and road wagons, surreys, piano box, stick cent wagons, etc. He also handles the Page Bros, baggies of Marshall, Mioh. Mr. Roberts sells his goods cheap bat he carries no ebeap goods. He buys direct from the factories in large lots, pays cash, geta a liberal disoount, consequently is in a position to offer farmers and the to others the very best inducements that can be had. Hr addition to the implements and vehicle business be deals in fertilizer and is an agent for the Nelson Mania & Co., Chicago, and Kanfntm, Indianapolis, fertilizers, He has been in the business here since 1882, and has always conducted has business on equitable and progressive principles, and purchasers arc assured of getting excellent twine, low prioes and satisfactory treatment at this popular implement emporium. ..